Germany captain Michael Ballack has been ruled out of this summer's World Cup because of the right ankle injury he suffered in Saturday's FA Cup final.
National team coach Joachim Loew is still confident that the Nationalelf can produce a good tournament, even without the services of players such as Rene Adler and Michael Ballack.
The world's best football managers not all in South Africa for the World Cup but some of them have made their way to South Africa to watch the games from the stands. Football managers such as Fabio Capello, now coaching England and Sven-Goran Erikson, coaching the Ivory Coast, are two of the world's best football managers that are managing in the 2010 World Cup.
Here is a short list of summarizing three of the... read article
Football has been played in Europe for a long time - indeed, many of the top clubs boast more than 100 years of history. One wonders, though, which European team today ranks best of them all.
Big mistake. Just as Dinho was improving at Milan.
Good decision. He just isn't the same player he used to be.
Brazil coach, Dunga, has left Ronaldinho out of the national team squad for the team's final friendly game before the 2010 world cup, vs Ireland. It probably means Dunga doesn't plan on keeping a spot for Ronaldinho in team Brazil.
Ronaldinho has lately shown some sparks of form at Milan, but not enough to impress Dunga.
In every tournament, it happens that a team fails to live up to the expectations. You may be expecting a lot from it and than some thing happens and there goes your expectations. It is almost inevitable.
